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arrivals from china. celebrations have begun to mark the start of 2023, with firework displays in auckland, new zealand and at sydney harbour. and queen guitarist brian may and members of england s women s football team are among those celebrated in the uk s new year s honours list. hello and welcome. the mayor of kyiv, vitaliy klitschko has told the bbc that one person has been killed and 11 people have been taken to hospital, including a journalist from japan, after russia launched more than a dozen missiles targeting cities across ukraine on new year s eve. mr klitschko said several districts had been hit in the capital, including pechersk which is in the city centre. british intelligence had earlier warned of potential russian attacks, after the kremlin had launched country wide strikes on thursday, killing at least three people and injuring six, including a child, according to the ukrainian officials. earlier, our correspondent huge bachega went to the site of one ....
in 600 years to resign. world health officials call on beijing to share accurate covid data, as england becomes the latest country to control arrivals from china. queen guitarist brian may and members of england s women s football team are among those celebrated in the uk s new year s honours list. and celebrations have begun to mark the start of 2023, with firework displays in auckland, new zealand and at sydney harbour. hello, welcome. russia has launched another barrage of missiles at cities across ukraine in the second big attack in three days. a number of explosions were heard in the centre of the capital, kyiv. residents there have been told by the authorities to remain in shelters. from kyiv, hugo batchega sent this report. on new year s eve, another wave of russian missiles. the air raid alerts sounded at lunchtime on a day families usually celebrate together. this woman was at home when her district in kyiv was hit. translation: me and my husband were literally - thr ....
delays are also being reported by travellers heading for the eurotunnel in folkestone, with traffic crawling on approaching routes. and russian missiles hit the port of odesa a day after ukraine and russia agreed to restart grain exports. welcome to bbc news. in the past hour the head of the world health organization has declared the outbreak of monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. the who director general says 16,000 cases of the disease have been reported in more than 75 countries, and five people have died. dr tedros says monkeypox represents a high risk in europe, with a clear risk of further international spread. we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little, and which meets the criteria in the international health regulations. for all of these reasons, i have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of internati ....
Virologist at the university of cambridge and presenter of the naked scientists podcast. just took us through the testing of people travelling from china? how necessary is it? why are we seeing those cases in china go up so much? but this is based on is the fact that in china right now there are millions of cases of coronavirus infection, and where there are millions of cases of infection there is the potential to spawn new variants of the infection. we already have a million plus cases a week of omicron, which is what is in china as well, in this country. so this is not about preventing more cases from coming into the country, because even if we let everybody in from china who wanted to come here on a flight at any one moment, it would be a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of virus we already have. but why people are concerned is that if people arrive ....
The world health organisation says chinese officials must share more real time information on covid in the country as infections surge. cases have soared and several countries are now screening travellers from china, after many of the country s strict restrictions have been lifted over the last few weeks. officials at the who want to see more data on hospitalisations and deaths. the uk is one of the countries that is to introduce new covid checks for people arriving on flights from china. from next thurday, travellers will have to provide a negative test before boarding their flight. some random testing will be carried out on arrivals. earlier, i spoke to dr chris smith, virologist at the university of cambridge and presenter of the naked scientists podcast. i began by asking him to explain to me the testing arriving from china. in china right now, there are millions of cases of coronavirus infection. and where there are millions of cases of infection, there is the potential to spawn n ....